Rope-clamp.



Patented Sept. I2, I899. J. G. WARDELL.

ROPE CLAMP.

(Application filed June 8, 1898.

(No Model.)

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UNTTEE STATES PATENT Enron,

JOHN G. \VARDELL, OF EAST 'TAW'AS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR. F ONE-HALF TO ANTHONY MILLER, 0F SAME PLACE.

ROPE-SLAM P.

SPECIFICATION forming; part of Letters Patent No. 632,930, dated September 12, 1899.

Application filed June 6, 1898. Serial No. 682,722. No model.)

To In whom it may concern: tance beyond the flange. Both extremities Be it known that I, JOHN G. \VARDELL, a of the clamp are rounded, as at 10, to prevent citizen of the United States, residing at East unnecessary chafing of the rope. Tawas, in the county of losco and State of In the operation of the device the plate 2 5 lilichigan, have invented a new and useful is arranged at an angle to the strain upon the Rope-Clamp, ofwhich the following is aspccirope, which is in the direction indicated by fication. the arrow, and the rope preferably passed This invention relates to improvements in through an eyebolt 11, disposed so as to guide rope-clamps, and is designed for use aboard the rope diagonally across the outer end of 10 vessels, for clothes-lines, and for holding the clamp When any strain is placed upon ropes generally. the rope 12 in the direction of the arrow,-pres- The object of the present invention is to sure is applied upon the outer end of the provide a simple and effective device of this longer arm of the clamp 3, which draws the character embodying a leverpivoted intershorter and wider arm against the rope and I5 mediate its ends and forming a clamp arclamps the same tightlyagainst the innerwall ranged within a suitable casing and a re of the flange 5, and thus securely holds the leasing-lever therefor whereby the rope may rope from slipping. To release the rope, it is be quickly relieved from the pressure of the simply necessaryto throw the cam-lever4,pivclamp to obtain any slack or for entirely oted to the plate 2 and alongside of the clamp, 2o removing the rope. against the outer edge of the clamp, as shown Further objects and advantages of these in Fig. 2, which forces the clamp to assume improvements will be hereinafter more fully a position with its inclined edge parallel with described, shown in the accompanying drawthe inner wall of the flange and relieves the ings, and particularly pointed out in the aprope, so that it maybe easilydrawn in either 2 5 pended claims. direction. It will be understood that the In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective clamp 3 is arranged so as to allow the rope to view of the invention applied in use. Fig. pass freely between the inner wall of the 2 is a top plan view thereof with the clamp flangeand theinclined edge ofthe clamp when released. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional no strain is upon the rope or when the re- So 30 view taken on the line so so of Fig. 2. Fig. 4: leasing-lever forces the clamp into the posiis a detail perspective view of the pivoted tion shown in Fig. 2. clamp. The base-plate of this invention is designed Corresponding parts in the several figures to be of metal; but the eccentric clamp and are denoted by like characters of reference. releasing-lever may be of either wood or iron. 35 Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a The arrangement of the clamp 3 within the surface upon which the device is to be mountflange 5 allows of a rope being quickly reeved ed. 2 designates a metallic plate suitably therebetween, while the mounting of the resecured to the surface 1 and carries the pivleasing-lever entirely independent of the oted clamp 3 and the releasing-lever 4'- The clamping parts and not normally subject to 4o clamp 3 is pivoted within an overhanging the strain of the rope requires but a slight flange 5, formed by bending a portion of the pressure thereon to quickly release the clamp. plate2 back upon itself, and held therein by These features all combine to make the presmeans of a removable pivot 6. This clamp entinventionasimple and highly practicalde- 3 is a lever having the inclined edge 7 grooved vice, which, being capable of various changes 5 throughout its length, as at 8, and the inin its form, proportion, and minor details clined edge arranged toward the inner wall without departing from the spirit and scope 9-of the flange 5, having the pivot-pin 6 aror sacrificing any of the advantages thereof, ranged at about the center of the flange 5, but I do not wish to be understood as limiting passing through the clamp to one side of its myself to the precise construction and ar- [00 5o center through the wider portion thereof, rangement as herein shown and described.

which extends the other end a suitable dis- Having thus described the invention, what is claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

1. A rope-clamp comprising a base-plate, a flange or gripping-surface at one side thereof, a clamping-lever pivoted intermediate of its ends to the base-plate and having one end adapted to cooperate with the flange to clamp the rope, and a separate releasing-lever pivoted in operative relation to the clampinglever and adapted to engage the end of the same opposite the clamping end thereof, whereby the said lever may be released, substantially as shown and described.

2. A rope-clamp comprising a base-plate, an overhanging flange at one side thereof, a clamping-lever pivoted intermediate its ends to the flange, said lever being arranged with its long arm extending beyond the flange and having its clamping edge provided with a groove receiving the rope, and a releasing cam-lever pivoted to the base-plate and adapted to bear against the outer edge of the long arm of the clamping-lever, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a rope-clamp, the combination with a base-plate and an overhanging flange, of a clamping-lever pivoted intermediate its ends between the base-plate and the flange, having its long arm extended beyond the flange and adapted to clamp the rope between the inner wall of the flange and the short arm of the clamping-lever, a releasing cam-lever pivoted to the base-plate alongside of and adapted to bear against the outer edge of the long arm of the clamping-lever, near the free end thereof, and a guide for the rope arranged to bring the tension diagonally across the free end of the long arm of the clamping-lever, substantially as shown and described.

4:. A rope-clam p, comprising a base, a flange or support, a clamping-lever pivoted intermediate its ends to the flange, said lever arranged with the long arm extending beyond theflange, and a releasing cam-lever pivoted to the base-plate and adapted to bear against the outer edge of the long arm of the clampinglever,- substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN G. \VARDELL.

Vitnesses:

L. M. OAKES, .A. E. SHARPE. 

